Lateral and anterior thalamic lesions impair independent memory systems

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 388-396

  Mitchell, Anna S ^a,b   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY;

AMNESIA; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS;

EID: 33744811402     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.122206     Document Type: Article

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